Armaan Malik Quotes
Amaal is a music composer, and I am singer, so I think we compliment each other rather than competing with each other.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I like music a lot.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.
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I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Amaal is a music composer, and I am singer, so I think we compliment each other rather than competing with each other.
